Can anyone tell me about the Egyptian ceremony/ritual known as 'stretching the cord'?

It's got something to do with the building of new temples and monuments, and apparently it involved the goddess Seshet and the alignments of stars. Can anyone give me more info on this?_________________High-Priestess of Isis, Hereditary Princess, Lady of Philae, Favourite of Osiris, the Lord of Abydos, Daughter of Horus, Chantress of Bastet, Superior of the Kitty Litter
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I've heard of a ritual where when they begin to build a new building they have one person holding a...something like a pendant I think , but they have to align it with a certain star and that becomes the base for the new monument--supposedly it was a very respectable job to have._________________Amon, King of the Gods, Lord of the Silent
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Thanks for the links-I was right, there really are connections with Seshet and the stars.

Is it true that the pyramids were lined up to the compass points? If so, i assume they could have use the north star, as they were, in my opinion, very good astronomers._________________High-Priestess of Isis, Hereditary Princess, Lady of Philae, Favourite of Osiris, the Lord of Abydos, Daughter of Horus, Chantress of Bastet, Superior of the Kitty Litter
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If you think about modern construction, they use rope stretched tight between two poles to create straight lines. I suspect that's how they created the walls in AE as well. You would have to make sure the foundations were straight after all.
They built on a rather large scale. I suspect pulling a rope taut would be the only reliable way to create sttraight lines._________________Math and Art: http://mathematicsaroundus.blogspot.com/

Is it true that the pyramids were lined up to the compass points? If so, i assume they could have use the north star, as they were, in my opinion, very good astronomers.

I can't say for all of the pyramids, but the three most famous--on the Giza Plateau, of course--are in fact aligned to the cardinal points. The Egyptians had a sophisticated understanding of astronomy, as well as a rich mytho-astrological foundation in their culture, so erecting a building to the cardinal points was both practical and religious to them. After all, they used celestial objest such as the Circumpolar Stars to establish true north.

Did they use the north star? Seems simple enough, but I've heard that in those days there was no north star (was this to do with presessional earth axis wobbling?)_________________High-Priestess of Isis, Hereditary Princess, Lady of Philae, Favourite of Osiris, the Lord of Abydos, Daughter of Horus, Chantress of Bastet, Superior of the Kitty Litter
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